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SUPPORT FOR SHIRT GOLLARS.

No; 249,878. Patented Nov. 8,1881.

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.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. LYNCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUPPORT FOR SHIRT-COLLAR S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 'No. 249,378, dated November 8,1881.

Application filed May 13, 1881. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. LYNCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Supports for the Collars for Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

. This invention consists in an expansible ring made of card-board or other suitable material, and provided at one edge with a sectional flange, so that the ring can be adjusted to the width of different shirt-collars, and that when the same is placed into a shirt-collar its sectional flange extends beneath the shirt-bosom and retains the ring in position,

This invention "is illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in which Figure l represents a vertical section of a package of shirts the collars of which are sustained by my support. Fig. 2 is a section of a shirt audits collar provided with one of my supports, on a larger scale than the previous figure. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view of my support detached. Fig. 4 isa face view of a strip of paper or card-board prepared to be used for one of my supports.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In packing up shirts with standing collars for transportation great care must be taken to prevent the collars from becoming wrinkled or broken, and if a number of shirts are packed into a box, as now practiced, the collarsare left entirely unsupported. by anything besides their own stiffness, audit is almost impossible to transport such a package to a great distance without damaging oneor more of the shirtcollars. vention.

In the drawings, the letter A designates my support, which is made of card-board or other suitable material, such material being cut into strips of the forinshown in Fig. 4, each strip being provided with a slot, to, near one end, a tongue, 6, near its other end, and a sectional flange, c, at one of its edges. When this strip is bent to form a cylinder, as shown in;Fig. 3,

This difficulty is overcome by myin- I shown in Figs. 1 and 2,

the tongue 12 is passed through the slot a, and the flange 0 is turned out at right angles to the side of the support, as shown, such being accomplishedhy providing said flange with a series of incisions, d.

By means of the tongue b and slot at the support can be adjusted to shirt-collars of different widths, the slot at being curved, so that it retains the tongue at any desired position With sutficient tenacity for the purpose desired.

When a shirt, B, is folded in the usual manner, the support A, having been previously adjusted to the width of the collar 0, Fig. 2, is placed into the interior of said collar in such a position that the flange 0 catches beneath the bosomfof the shirt, and since the height of the support exceeds that of the collar, as the collar is protected against all pressure which might have a tendency to wrinkle or break the same. By means of my support, therefore, I am enabled to pack up a number of shirts in a box or other receptacle and ship the same to any desired distance without danger that the collars might be spoiled.

What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a support for the collars of shirts, consisting of a strip of card-board or other suitable material, provided with a slot, a, a tongue, I), and a retaining-flange, a, substantially as shown and described.

2."The combination, with ashirt, B, and its collar e, of a support, A, adapted to lit the interior of said collar, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN T. LYNCH. Witnesses:

A. STRAUB, W.'HAUFF. 

